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Mark Takano: We had plenty of time to try and hash all of this out, but let's remember the original pretext for this shutdown. What I…

On the recordOctober 2, 2013
We had plenty of time to try and hash all of this out, but let's remember the original pretext for this shutdown. What I kept hearing from our Republican colleagues was they wanted to delay the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. That seemed to be the crux of their objectives.
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Mark Takano
Democratic · California
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Oct 2, 2013

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